I know right? What does the scammer even want or expect anyone to do?
Regular Cop shouts, “Stop or I’ll shoot!”
Dentist/Cop shouts, “Stop or I’ll root…canal!”
Greg Charles:
Nah, I’m more impressed by REV. COLLINS MORRISON, the minister-narc.
Well, I know which one I am most scared of.
I’m a bad person for letting Mr. Festus Martins just sit there and rot in some detention cell at JFK, aren’t I?
Oh well, he knew the risks going in. The hell with him.
I doubt he knew the risks. Obviously, he would have been aware of the danger of a satchel full of money, because everyone has watched No Country For Old Men.
But a parcel box full of money? What could go wrong?
Festus? Who the hell is named Festus? Did this guy watch Gun Smoke reruns and decide that that was a common sounding name to Americans?
Is it safe?
This is a crime where I have no sympathy at all for the victims, who must exhibit a pathologically high combination of stupid and greedy in order to be victimized.
I’m with you. I’ve got a dedicated E-mail folder containing the more entertaining ones I’ve received. It currently stands at 267 messages dating back to March 2007, but these are only a small fraction of the total that have ended up in my inbox or junk folder at one time or another.
Dentists are experts in extraction and, after all, that is what he is trying to do.
Huh. Has anyone ever reverse-scammed a 419 scammer?
419Eater (linked above) has several highly-entertaining stories of them doing just this. You can spend an entire pleasant afternoon reading them.
HOWEVER - and as that site points out - you really don’t want to do this lightly and without careful precaution. Some of the people at the other end of the internet are very, very nasty characters indeed and have a longer reach than you might imagine.
I have a great idea.
How about we all chip in and put full page ads in the local Nigerian newspapers:
“Join in the fun of scamming Americans! For only $300, you can be a partner in our nation’s major export of writing poorly worded emails and duping innocent retirees in the USA. Send your cashier’s check immediately to the Scam Da 'Merican Bastards (SDMB) fund. Upon receipt of your money, you will become a full partner and get boxes of money hand delivered by Cecil, our CEO.”
I figure if 500,000 Nigerians sign up, we can have a hell of a Dopefest…
And don’t forget to floss!